Natalia Echeverri is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Her interdisciplinary teaching and research examine the social, ecological, and material dimensions of infrastructural development and the negotiated relationships between urban development, landscape and environmental systems. She is interested in building urban nature and documenting the novel ecologies that emerge within the city. In her practice and research, Natalia works to bridge knowledge gaps and reconcile the epistemologies of landscape practitioners and ecologists through close study of project-based collaborations.
Natalia has practiced extensively across architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture in offices including Foster and Partners and Hood Design Studio. She is a founding partner of VALECHE Studio, a landscape design consultancy based in Hong Kong and China, focused on developing unique material and technical applications in both speculative installations and applied ecological restoration projects.
Natalia holds a Master of Architecture and a Master of City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught a wide range of architecture, landscape, and urban design courses and , with visiting appointments at the University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design and at Pratt Institute’s Graduate Architecture and Urban Design). Most recently, Natalia held the position of senior lecturer in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, where she served as the director of the Master of Landscape Architecture and the Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture programmes.
Education
MArch + MCP, University of California, Berkeley
BA in Architecture, University of Washington